Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.
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The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.
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If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
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Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
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Don't read to remember; read to realize.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.
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There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.
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Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?